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peppertree

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5. You ain't whistlin' Dixie
Sun Feb 22, 2026, 09:40 AM
12 hrs ago

Like our Republican friends, Argentine RWers (like many RWers in Latin America) tend to be inveterate bigots and misogynists - many being anti-Semites with Nazi sympathies, who see nothing wrong with concentration camps for those they see as "shitty" people (their words).

That's what the last dictatorship did 50 years ago - and most RWers down there still applaud it.

And then there's the small matter of the current Foreign Minister - Pablo Quirno - whose grandfather was a business partner with a Belgian Nazi fugitive...

https://www.democraticunderground.com/110892722

Milei reportedly replaced his (Jewish) predecessor with Quirno because "Trump liked him better."

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